Lynne Truss Quotes

You know, if you love something, you should love it regardless of whether it costs five dollars or 500 or 5,000 dollars. Unfortunately, that's not the way our culture works, and we do collectively buy into this idea that things that are more expensive probably have more value.

'The more expensive the better' is kind of the American way, and if you spent $600 for a sweatshirt, then that makes it better.

Everybody loves to spend money at least some of the time - because everybody loves the stuff you can buy with it. The key to the pleasure level of any transaction is the balance between the pain of the payment and the reward of the purchased object.

Maybe it's naive to say, but it almost seems like, in the past, people tried to sell you something you would actually need, like a hammer or a broom or a toothbrush. But now there's this notion that they can sell you anything. And all they have to do is convince you that you need it.

I write the shopping column. I think I've proven my superficiality.

L'Oreal's slogan 'because you're worth it' has come to epitomise banal narcissism of early 21st century capitalism; easy indulgence and effortless self-love all available at a flick of the credit card.

Status-driven, conspicuous consumption thrives from the language of novelty.

We don't need fashion to survive, we just desire it so much.

Some people just use beautiful things to just shop or to have a tribal feeling - 'Oh, blah, blah, blah, I'm wearing Hermes; blah, blah, blah, I'm wearing Saint Laurent; blah-blah blah' - because it's like a need, a tribe, recognition: 'Ahh, my Rolex.' But I run away from anything which is too recognizable - it's my nature.

You can't just buy things for the label - it's ridiculous.

For me personally, I cannot spend a certain amount of money on anything but shoes, a coat, a purse, and that's it. I could never spend more than $1K on a sweater. I'm only going to wear it twice. But you go online, and you see incredibly expensive sweaters selling out constantly.

An object should elicit desire, and often it happens not because people need it but because they love it.

Do I care about clothes and stuff? Not much. It's a bit sick, isn't it, people spending all that money on clothes? I'm too stingy. I wouldn't pay £100 for a shirt.

How much of this junk shall we buy?

The modern dogma is comfort at any cost.

China’s educational system has fed the country’s youth a steady diet of patriotism to ward off rebellious thoughts. But such measures appear almost redundant since many young Chinese seem more interested in buying i-phones and Louis Vuitton products than in fighting for democratic change.

I love fashion. I shop like a 16-year old girl. Sneakers. That's what I spend money I don't have on.

I'm caught up probably just as much in the consumer culture as the next person.

I'm not one of those people that needs to have all of the new gadgets or wants any of that.

Seeing so much of the same thing suppresses the desire to buy.

Human nature says that you want a bargain, whether you want the goods or not. You think that something is a steal, you'll buy it.

Yeah, I love shopping and clothes but I don't live to shop.

I have more than 100 pairs of Jimmy Choos and I feel very guilty about it.

A company like Nike can convince people to buy Air Jordans even though they never saw Michael Jordan play.

It's sad, the enslavement of the black underclass to designer labels - we're an age that cares more about Versace than Vermeer.